Car Czar Conundrum
December 8th, 2008 admin
Last time I check my historical facts, the term Czar set fear in the hearts of the working classes and country folk of what was then the reign of Czar Nicholas II of Imperial Russia. Here we are today almost one hundred years from those despotic days and still using the infamous title of Czar. This time in a so-called modern capitalistic society where the democratically elected governing body is bailing out the Big Three auto companies with tax payers hard earned cash, but wait. Conditions are being placed for those rogue manufactures who several years ago fought against CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy), standards for passenger cars and light trucks. The electrification of Detroit, meaning the implementation of hybrid power trains to elevate miles per gallon is one of the main conditions set by the Obama government. With that said, development of state-of-the-art lithium ion battery packs to sustain a hybrid vehicle for over 30 miles without having to kick-in it’s fossil fuel burning engine and also to possibly build an electric car with that technology, similar to the all electric marvel the General Motors EV-1. Hopefully history won’t repeat itself and the angry, jobless, Bolshevik hordes won’t take down the reigning Czar and royal family.
